Adolph Brodsky

Adolph Brodsky ( Адольф Давидович Бродский, Adolf Brodsky Davidovic; * 21 Märzjul / April 2 1851greg in Taganrog, .. † January 22, 1929 in Manchester ) was a Russian violinist and music teacher.

Brodsky, whose father and grandfather were amateur musicians who had from the age of four violin lessons in his native city and entered the age of nine for the first time publicly in Odessa. He then studied in Vienna at the Conservatory of the Society of Friends of Music violin with Josef Hellmesberger and 1868-69 was second violinist in the string quartet. He also became a member of the Vienna court orchestra.

From 1870 Brodsky took several concert tours through Russia and went to Moscow in 1873, where he studied with Ferdinand leaves at the conservatory. In 1875, he succeeded him as violin professor. On a concert tour of Europe, he wrote music history when he took over in Vienna in 1881 the solo part in the premiere of Tchaikovsky's now world-famous Violin Concerto. Its original dedicatee, Leopold Auer, had the concert rejected as unplayable.

From 1883 to 1891 taught Brodsky at the Leipzig Conservatory. At the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, he was concertmaster. Here he formed with Hugo Becker, Hans Sitt and Julius Klengel the internationally renowned Brodsky Quartet. In 1891 he went to America to teach in New York on Scharwenka Conservatory of Music. At the same time, he was concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra under Walter Damrosch.

Brodsky went to Manchester in 1895 and worked until 1896 at the Hallé Orchestra as concertmaster. In 1896 he followed Hallé as the director of the Royal Manchester College of Music, he had this position until his death in 1929.